It's difficult to persuade voters that putting you in the White House will end civil unrest when you're currently in the White House and there's civil unrest. EricLevitz writes that Trump's Portland policy didn't backfire the way the president wanted
Trump can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but he cannot fool enough people in plague times. Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images Donald Trump is trying to convince swing voters that keeping him in office is the only way to avert lawless disorder in America’s cities. To make this case, he is using the powers of his office to stoke lawless disorder in America’s cities.
Trump’s June 26 declaration came too late. The momentum of the protests was fading in many U.S. cities, and confrontations between federal authorities and civilians were becoming less frequent. Then Trump found Portland, according to administration and campaign officials.Still restive, the West Coast city with a long tradition of protest as a subculture of anarchism was staging peaceful mobilizations as well as smaller nightly clashes with authorities.
If you were a historically unpopular Republican president who wanted to quell civil unrest in an overwhelmingly left-wing city, sending federal agents into the streets of that city without the permission of state or municipal officials — and then having those agents abduct protesters in unmarked vans — would be a very bad way to do it. If you were a historically unpopular Republican president who wanted to promote civil unrest, however, it would be a very sound policy.
So, Donald Trump is getting what he wants: fodder for campaign ads warning that Joe Biden’s election would turn the U.S. into a Hobbesian hellscape where no cop can hear you scream. Meanwhile, with regard to the issue that lies at the heart of the past two months of protests, Biden’s advantage over Trump is even larger. A recent Fox News poll found that Americans believe Biden would do a better job handling “race relations” than Trump by a 52 to 31 percent margin.
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